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Thing Explainer
Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
2024 || Paperback || Randall Munroe || John Murray Press
From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.
Bees & Honey
River Cottage Handbook No.19
2024 || Hardcover || Rachel de Thample || Bloomsbury Publishing
The nineteenth River Cottage Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to setting up a hive, caring for healthy bees and harvesting their honey, as well as recipes for eating, soothing and healing
Sixty Harvests Left
How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future
2024 || Paperback || Philip Lymbery || Bloomsbury Publishing
Co-Science back to Life
Critics to the bio-synthetic anti-Nature delirium
2024 || Paperback || Paolo Renati || Obelisk Books
“Rejecting Technological Narcissism: Unraveling the Threat to Humanity and Nature”
Paolo Renati, PhD, presents a critical analysis of today’s rampant technological advancements, especially in synthetic biology, genetic manipulation, and the creation of bionic entities like androids and cyborgs. Renati questions the overlooked essence of Nature, highlighting the detrimental consequences of our obsession with technological progress, driven by capitalist motives.
The essay exposes how scie...
The Everything Blueprint
The Microchip Design that Changed the World
2024 || Paperback || James Ashton || Hodder & Stoughton
A gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company caught in the middle of the global battle for dominance
Chromatopia
An Illustrated History of Colour
2024 || Paperback || David Coles || Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Green energy for all
How hydrogen and electricity carry our future
2024 || Hardcover || Ad van Wijk e.a. || Allied Water
The transition to sustainable energy means much more than building more wind turbines and solar panels. An overhaul of the entire energy system is needed. The gap between supply and demand for sustainable energy is too large. In cities and industrial areas, where sustainable energy is most needed, there is a severe lack of space. And the deserts and oceans, where there is an abundance of sun and wind, are far away. This book shows how to solve these storage and transport problems in smart way...
Cooked
A Natural History of Transformation
2024 || Paperback || Michael Pollan || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth. Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, this title shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that when it gets down to it, it also fundamentally shapes our lives.
The Machine Age
An Idea, a History, a Warning
2024 || Paperback || Robert Skidelsky || Penguin Books Ltd
Will AI Replace Us?
A Primer for the 21st Century
2024 || Paperback || Shelly Fan || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This well-balanced, comprehensive and engaging review surveys the development of Artificial Intelligence over the last sixty years and highlights the likely transformative effects of AI on society over the next few decades.